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Pan Those Eyeshadows Project Pan - October 2019 update

This project is part of my effort to get visible progress out of my makeup. I randomly selected five shadows to start, and as soon as I reach my goal (usually hitting pan), I can rotate in a different randomly-selected shadow. Here's how I did over the past month:

1&2) "Sin" and "Naked" from Urban Decay Naked palette - I finally hit pan on "Naked" after about six months of using it every time I did my makeup. It's a small pan, but it counts. I'm still making slow progress on "Sin" since I use it only as an inner corner highlight. It's too light to be used as a lid shade, so I'm just really sparkly at my inner corners. I think this will be in the project for a few more months at least.


3) "Chauffeur" from Colourpop Yes Please palette - I decluttered this palette entirely, so I didn't take a picture. Wave goodbye.

4) "Rose Quartz" from Anastasia Beverly Hills Sultry palette - You can tell from the picture that there's a decent dip in it. I've been applying it with my fingers (I know, who am I?) since there's better color payoff that way. I would like to have pan on this by the next update.


5) "Light My World" single by Sydney Grace - I really enjoyed using this shadow. It looks gold in the pan, but shows up on the eye with more of a green shift and I love green-gold looks (well, all the time but especially) during Fall. I initially thought I would only keep this one in for a month, but I'd like to keep using it so I'll add it to the project officially.


Since I hit pan on one shade and decluttered another, I'm rolling in two more shadows for the upcoming month.

~ "Wildlife" a single by Sydney Grace - It's pictured above next to "Light My World." Since it, too, is one of the newer products in my collection, I'm only going to add it until the next update so I can get some use out of it without spending too much time on it (unless I want to).

~ "Dione" a single by NARS - I bought this at Marshall's after this line was discontinued. As you can see, it has not been used that much. I just have a hard time reaching for single shadows.


Here's the color group I'll be working with for the next month:
(L-R) Sin, Rose Quartz, Light My World, Wildlife, Dione



Goal recap:
~ hit pan on "Rose Quartz"
~ make visible dent in "Dione"
~ use "Wildlife" enough to make it look used

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